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Camden, William. Annales rerum Anglicarum, et Hibernicarum, regnante Elizabetha ... prima pars emendatior, altera nunc primum in lucem edita. Lugd. Batavorum: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1625. 8vo (18 cm, 7.1"). Engr. t.-p., [6] ff., xvi, 855, [41 (index)] pp.; 1 plt.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The engraved portrait of Queen Elizabeth was done by C. van Queboren.
• Willems 227; Copinger 759. Period-style calf framed and panelled in gilt fillets embellished with blind rolls and gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt-decorated raised bands, and blind-tooled patterned bands in compartments; binding signed G.B. (Grace Bindings) in blind at inner area of rear cover, lower turn-in. Pages age-toned. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner; pages with scattered instances of early inked underlining and bracketing. Approximately 50 leaves with light to faint waterstaining in outer portions, extending into text; one leaf with tear from upper margin, extending through first paragraph. (18995)
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Chamberlayne, John. Magnæ
Britanniæ notitia: Or, the present state of Great Britain, with divers
remarks upon the antient state thereof...the two and twentieth edition of the
south part call'd England, and first of the north part call'd Scotland; with
improvements.... In two parts. London: Pr. for Timothy Goodwin, Matthew Wotton, Benjamin Tooke, Daniel Midwinter,
and George Wells, 1708. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9").
Frontis., [10], x, [10], 756, [27 (index)], [1 (blank)] pp.
The
frontispiece portrait, engraved by R. White, depicts Queen Anne.
• ESTC T54583. Contemporary calf, blind-panelled and spine with printed paper title and shelving labels; worn and abraded, with loss of leather to head of spine. Title-page with line reading "Present State" excised, repaired some time ago by backing upper part of page with similarly colored paper; title-page and one other with inked ownership inscriptions. Endpapers and pastedowns doodled on in an early hand, with lower inner portion of front free endpaper torn away; frontispiece with a few small ink marks. Pages age-toned.
He Gave
Himself the Last WordChurchill, Charles. The conference. London: G. Kearsly, 1763. 4to (25.2 cm, 9.9"). [2], 19, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking half-title).
• ESTC T1702. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Half-title lacking. Title-page and two others stamped by a now-defunct institution; leaves with reinforced tears at inner margins.
Britain
Mortgaged toDefend
HanoverCitizen
of London, pseud.
A familiar instructive dialogue, which happened last week at a tavern near the
Royal Exchange, between an eminent merchant of Dunkirk...and an English member
of parliament.... London: [Sold in May’s buildings], 1748. 12mo (17.3 cm,
6.75"). [2] ff., 55, [1] pp. 
• ESTC T71519. Self-wrappers; spine rebacked with paper. Rubber-stamp on first page. A few closed tears or instances of shallow chipping, not affecting impression, with paper repair on the verso of the first leaf. Outer pages lightly foxed and soiled, interior pages with occasional spots of foxing or soiling.
TheUncensored, “Restored” Text — Gilt Spine ExtraClarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of. The history of the rebellion and civil wars in England ... a new edition, from the original manuscript, with copious indexes. Oxford: University Press, 1843. 8vo (25 cm, 9.9"). [4], 1364 pp.
Single-click any image where the hand appears on The complete Oxford editions are generally seen bound as seven volumes, but the work appears here as one very large volume, in an attractive contemporary binding.
• NSTC 2H39552. Contemporary diced dark blue/black calf, covers framed in blind rolls and single gilt fillet, gilt spine extra; slight wear to corners and extremities, joints just starting at top and bottom. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and with institutional bookplate. Pages clean. All edges marbled. Handsome!
The First Sentence
Doesn't Actually Sound “FRIENDLY” . . . Comber, Thomas. Friendly and seasonable advice to the Roman Catholicks of England. The third edition enlarg'd: with an addition of the most convincing instances and authorities; and the testimony of their own authors for the same. By a charitable hand. London: Henry Brome, 1677. 12mo (14.8 cm, 5.8"). [24], 152, [4] pp.
Uncommon. OCLC and ESTC report only seven holdings of this edition, including the present, properly deaccessioned copy.
• Wing (rev.) C5468; ESTC R1768; Allibone 417. On Comber, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Contemporary mottled sheep, sometime rebacked and spine with blind-tooled floral decorations; binding worn and scuffed overall, joints starting from foot, corners and spine extremities rubbed, spine with inked call number. Front free endpaper (separated) and two pages with private collector's pressure-stamp, back pastedown with institutional rubber-stamp; the odd library pencilling. Imprimatur leaf with ownership inscription dated 1850 and with early inked inscription. Pages age-toned. (24340)
ELIZABETH Must Have Loved His
Thinking on Monarchy Crompton, Richard, ed. L'authoritie et iurisdiction des
courts de la maieste de la Roygne: nouelment collect & compose, per R. Crompton del milieu Temple esquire. Apprentice del ley. Londini: Caroli Yetsweirti, 1594. 4to. [4], 232 ff.
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Written in Law French with some Latin, and with extended passages entirely in English in the section on “forrest” law; printed in black letter.
Provenance: Contemporary inked signatures to fly-leaf of Henry Wynn/Wine (Middle Temple?).
• ESTC S109077; STC (2nd ed.) 6050; Lowndes, I, 558. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. Pinhole or small worming throughout to top margins, touching a few letters in headings; light waterstaining to margins/corners of first/last leaves; one preliminary with just a very little bug-spotting. Paper flaws in margins of ff. 45, 164, and 172; last leaf a little tattered. Overall, very good. (21344)
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